378 
within the Metropolitan Police area, 
37, 38; on the regulation of Com- 
mons, 38 
Common-field system in early England, 8, 
9, 109 (note); at Tollard Farnham, 
216, 217, 218 
Common fields, Wrongful dealing in six- 
teenth century with, 17 
Common lands, Variety of ownership of, 
1; rights of turning out cattle on to, 
1; rights of digging turf, etc, on, 1; 
technically the wastes of the Manors, 
1; to be distinguished from private 
uninclosed lands, 1; near London and 
other towns, 2, 3; used for recreative 
purposes, 2; as reservoirs of fresh air 
and health, 3; in the provinces, 4; in 
Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire, 4; in 
mountainous districts, 4: total area 
in England and Wales of, 4,5; arca 
in 1834 of, 5; origin of, 7; ancient 
distribution of, 8; under the feudal 
system, 9, 10; as effected by the 
Statute of Merton, 11-13; the Stix- 
wold case, and, 14-16; their inclosure 
in the sixteenth century, 17; legis- 
lation under Queen Anne respecting, 
19; Acts between 1689 and 1846 re- 
specting, 20, 21; Act of 1845 regard- 
ing, 22; acres inclosed between 1845 
and 1869; movements between 1860 
and 1870 respecting, 24; neglect of 
Lords of Manors in supervising, 26 ; 
the attempt of Lords of Manors to 
appropriate, 25, 26; Mr. Doulton’s 
Committee on, 30-38 ; measures taken 
by Lords of Manors for the inclosure 
of, 39; and the work of the Commons 
Preservation Society, 39-44 ; powers 
under the Metropolitan Commons Act 
for the regulation of, 45, 312-330; 
prizes offered by Sir Henry Peek for 
essays on the preservation of, 45; 
statistics of inclosures since 1876 of, 
286; attacks by railway companies 
on, 29, 33, 100, 193, 331-342; powers 
under the Commons Act of 1876 for 
regulation of, 313; attacks by Cor- 
porations on, 338-341; effect of the | 
Commons Law Amendment Act on 
claims to, 357, 358 
Commons Act of 1876, 5, 278-281, 312, 
313 
Commons Law Amendment Act, The, 354, 
355 
Commons  Prezervation 
Formation of, 39; 
Society, the, 
chairman and 
INDEX, 
members of, 40, 41; its first labours, 
41; suits instituted by, 42-44; and 
the Metropolitan Commons Act, 44; 
and the suit of Mr. Gurney Hoare 
against Sir Thomas Wilson, 52, 53; 
its movement for the acquisition of 
Parliament Hill and other adjoining 
property, 456; and Plumstead 
Common, 79; and the Willingale 
case, 127; and the Epping Forest 
case, 149; and the lopping claims of 
the people of Loughton, 144; and the 
Malvern Hills, 172, 192; and Ban— 
stead Commons, 196, 200, 211; and 
Yollard Farnham Common, 212; and 
the New Forest, 242; and the Forest 
of Dean, 261; and Burnham Beeches, 
271; and Rural Commons, 278, 279; 
and roadside wastes, 291; and village 
greens, 307; and West Wickham 
Common, 315; and Hackney Com- 
mons, 321; and the invasions of 
railways on commons, 3383, 338; its 
,contlict with Corporations, 335-341 ; 
its movement for the repeal of the 
Statute of Merton, 347 
Commonwealth, Act and ordinance con- 
cerning forests of the, 114; surveys 
of Ashdown Forest under the, 162: 
plantations made in the New Forest 
during the, 234; inclosures in the 
Forest of Dean under the, 252, 243; 
Burnham LBeeches pollarded for 
muskets under the, 264 
Communities, village, 7 
Conservators, of Wimbledon Common, 98, 
99; of Wandsworth Common, 101; 
ot Malvern Hills, 173 
Convent of Burnham, 265 
Copyhold, Act of 1887, 351-354 
Copyholders, Rights over waste lands of, 
13; their rights declared to be for- 
feited under Henry VIII., 18; their 
rights over Hampstead Heath, 50, 51; 
as affected by the Copyhold Act of 
1887, 350-353 
Corporate bodies, Rights over common 
lands held by, 15 
Corporation of Birmingham, and _ its 
water-supply scheme, 339, 340 
Corporation of London, The, and the 
Lords of Manors of Epping Forest, 
42; their fight for the cause of the 
Commoners, 132-187, 145-147, 150; 
purchase of rights ot Lords of Manors 
in Epping Forest by, 150; expenses 
incurred in the Epping Forest case by, 
